Musical caller ID apparatus and method

Abstract

An incoming call prompting method is provided. The method receiving an incoming call decoding the phone number of the incoming call so as to obtain a digit set from the phone number stored in the data storage system. The method further includes determining a call number character of the incoming call and assigning musical notes associated with the numbers of the digit set according to the musical note table. Furthermore, the method includes obtaining corresponding audio clip of each note from an audio clip database and outputting the audio clips with the corresponding rhythm of the call number character of the incoming call through a music output apparatus.

1. A music caller identification (ID) apparatus, comprising:
 a data storage system that stores a musical note table, a music parameters table, an audio clip database, the musical note table assigning a musical note for each digit in a received phone number of an incoming call, the music parameter table storing relationships between a call number character and corresponding music parameters, and the audio clip database storing prerecorded audio clips of each musical note which is played according to different music parameters; 
 a decoder configured for decoding the phone number; 
 an incoming call receiving module configured for receiving the incoming call and sending the incoming call to the decoder to decode the phone number of the incoming call and to store the phone number in the data storage system; 
 a digit obtaining module configured for obtaining a digit set from the phone number stored in the data storage system; 
 a music parameter determined module for determining a call number character of the incoming call and obtaining the corresponding music parameters from the music parameter table according to the call number character of the incoming call; 
 a melody composing module for receiving the digit set from the digit obtaining module and assigning the musical notes associated with the numbers of the digit set according to the musical note table; and 
 a music generating module for obtaining a corresponding audio clip for each musical note from the audio clip database and outputting the audio clip(s) through a music output apparatus to form a music; 
 wherein the call number character is a digit of the call number.